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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

NEWTON J. SKAGGS, or M NTGOMERY, ALABAMA, AND RICHARD s. sKAees or SANsABA, TEXAS.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,943, dated October27, 1891.

Application filed February 19, 1891. Serial No. 382,035. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, NEWTON .I. SKAGGS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Montgomery, Montgomery county, Alabama, and

RICHARD S. SKAGGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Saba,in the county of San Saba and State of Texas. have invent-ed a new anduseful Mechanical Movement, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in mechanical movements.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve theconstruction of mechanical movements of th t class employed I 5 formixing and agitating liquids.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a mechanical movementembodying the invention and shown applied to a churn. Fig. 2 is acentral vertical longitudinal sec- 2 5 tional view. Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional View taken on line 50 a: of Fig. 2.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a frame comprisinga base 2, a single vertical standard 3, rising from one end 0 of thebase, a pair of uprights 4, arranged at the other end of the base, andhorizontal bars 5 and 6, connecting the standard and the uprights andprovided with bearing-openings adapted to receive parallel rotary shafts7. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated my invention appliedto a doubledasher churn having parallel shafts, and the shafts 7 areprovided at their lower ends with dashers 8 and at their upper end withheads 9, which prevent the shaft moving vertically in their bearing. Theshafts are connected with an operating-lever 10 by a strap or the like11, which has its end secured to the lever and is passed around theshaft adjacent to the lever at points near the upper and lowerhorizontal bars 5 and 6 and around the other shaft in a reversedirection at a point about midway between the bars.

In the operation of the device the upper portion of the strap is unwoundor moved out- Ward as the lower portion is wound or moved inward, andthe reverse winding upon the shafts causes a reverse rotation of theshafts at each stroke of the operating-lever. The operating-lever isapproximately T-shaped 5 5 and is arranged in the space between theuprights, and is mounted on a suitable shaft or pivot 12, and isprovided at its inner end with a crossbar 13, centrally secured to itand having its ends supported bydivergingbraces 14, each having one endbeveled and secured to the operating-lever at a point intermediate theends of the latter and having their opposite ends provided with recessesto receive the ends of the cross-bar 13. afterbeing coiled aroundtheshaft, has its ends secured to the outer faces of the braces 14.

The horizontal bars 5 and 6 are composed of two sections securedtogether by screws, and the sections are providedin their opposed 7ofaces with recesses which form the bearingopenings for the shafts, andthe latter are arranged in the recesses before the sections are securedtogether, and the heads 9 prevent a downward movement of the shaft andthe 75 lower end of thelatter, which are enlarged to form the dashers,prevent an upward move ment. The lower end of the standard 3 is providedwith a tenon 15, which engages a mortise 16 in the base, and theuprights 4c 4 8c are secured to a vertical bar 17 by a pin 19, which ismovable to enable the upper part of the frame to be removed from thebase. The. vertical bar 17 has its lower end rigidly secured to the baseand is arranged in the space 8 5 between the uprights, and the removablepin 19 engages the registering openings in the uprights and the bar 17.

The churn-body 20 is arranged on the base between the standard and theuprights, and 0 is provided with a sectional cover adapted to be readilyremoved and placed on the body and provided in its sections withrecesses which form openings for the shafts.

It will be readily seen that the mechanical 9 5 movement is simple andinexpensive in construction, adapted to be readily operated, and isdesigned to be applied to churns, egg-beaters, and the like, where theagitation or the mixing of fluids is a desideratum. I00

The strap 11,

the horizontal bars connecting the standard and the uprights, thevertical parallel shafts journaled in the horizontal bars, theapproximately T-shaped lever pivotally mounted between the uprights andprovided at its inner end with a cross-bar and having the bracessupporting the cross-bar, and the strap coiled around the shaft farthestfrom the operatinglever at a point about midway the length of the shaftand reversely coiled around the shaft adjacent the operating-lever atpoints near the ends of the shaft and having its ends secured to theends of the cross-bar of the operatinglever, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own We have heretoaffixed our signa- 25 tures in presence of two witnesses.

NEWTON J. SKAGGS. RICHARD S. SKAGGS.

Witnesses:

' S. M. BROWN,

J. D. I-IoPKINs.

